Originally Posted by
350htrr
Really? They sure seemed to care as far as I could tell. Anyways, I just retorted that assist is assist, mechanical advantage is an assist too... ....
agree 100%! cogs and chains and pedals.......all are forms of assist!
if you're not riding a no-pedal wooden balance bike, you're not
on a REAL bicycle at all! you're cheating and must be banned
from all REAL bicycle forums.
back to reality....there's some good reading on e-bikes here:
http://ebike.research.pdx.edu/sites/..._America_2.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws
Pedal-assisted bicycles and the Law ? Electric Bike Action
check out the first link, top of page 7: organic transit ELF encapsulated pedal-assisted recumbent trike.
legally classified as a low-speed electric bicycle.